Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Trivia Bits 03 June

 

The pentagram has five points and was used as an important religious symbol by the Babylonians and by the Pythagoreans in ancient Greece.

The herb, oregano, is sometimes known as wild majoram.

Fighting in the famous Rumble in the Jungle match in 1974 were boxers Muhammad Ali and George Foreman on October 30, 1974, in the Mai 20 Stadium, now the Tata Raphael Stadium, in Kinshasa, Zaire - now Democratic Republic of the Congo. Ali won by knocking out Foreman in the eighth round.

German Kaiser Wilhelm II ordered plans drawn up for Germany to invade two US cities: Boston and New York on March 1899.

Retired American Oscar award winning actor and novelist Gene Hackman has been mostly known as a serious actor but he did perform I Could Have Danced All Night with other cast members in the 1996 adaptation of La CageAux Folles.

After studying at New York’s famous Julliard School of Performing Arts, Christopher Reeve appeared in several movies and is best known for his roles as the caped superhero Superman.

The Nativity of St. John the Baptist Church in Piatra Neamț, Romania, built in 1497–98, was a court church of Stephen III of Moldavia.

Tbilisi is the capital of the European country of Georgia.

The reptile gharial is a Crocodile that is native to the Indian subcontinent and also called gavial and fish-eating crocodile. As the species has undergone both chronic long term and a rapid short-term declines it is listed as a Critically Endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

The role of the Feral Kid in the 1981 movie Mad Max: The Road Warrior was played by Emil Minty, an Australian former child actor.

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